120 KILVERT'S DIARY [May

church among the birds. I wandered round the church among the
dewy grass-grown graves and picturesque ivy- and moss-hung
tombstones. Round one grave grew a bed of primroses. Upon
another tali cowslips hung their heads.

The hour for service drew on. The clerk coughed in the church.
Two girls in grey dresses passed quietly through the church and
moved about among the graves on the N. side bending over a grave
beneath the elm. Then a woman in deep mourning moved slowly
down the path of the churchyard, and the clerk began to ring the
bell for service. My Father read prayers and I preached on the
Master washing the disciples' feet.

Monday, 8 May

It was very hot this morning, burning hot as I was in the garden
tying up 3 or 4 dozen lettuces. A cuckoo sat in the broken elm over-
head, moaning and chuckling and making an odd noise like a dove.
The two cows stood up to their udders in the pond in the little field
under the shade of the high hawthorn hedge that almost encircles
the pond. I took a book to the white gate and stood in the shade
of the trees reading and watching the people crossing the sunny
common to and fro by the several paths.

Tuesday, 9 May

I went to Hannah HatherelTs. Hannah told me of a dream Jane
had shortly before she died which comforted her very much. She
dreamt she saw a man lying down and a snowdrop was growing
out of his breast. Then she heard a voice saying, c"Wash me and I
shall be whiter than snow*. She thought it was a very comfortable
dream. Sometimes she had frightful dreams which terrified her.

Wednesday, 10 May

Fanny and I walked to Harnish house to dinner at 7.30. After the
ladies had left die dining room Mr. Winthrop and Mr. Bolden got
into a warm theological discussion. Mr. Winthrop, anxious to
refute all High Church arguments and repudiate all High Church
tendencies, threw over the Church altogether, denied the gift of the
Holy Spirit at Ordination and Baptism, denied the presence of the
Saviour with His Ministers, denied everything in short, and there
was nothing left. He said a man became a clergyman just as he
became a gardener by taking up that particular line of life.